Sad but true fact: Paw Patrol is copawganda

I love jj so much. I have things that I use graphite for that jj is not good at (yet, on my machine), but so far, everything jj does and shows to me is, like, "Yep, that's exactly how a DVCS tool should work. Sign me up"

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

ICE agents can be charged with murder: prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...

Belated Merry Christmas! I repost this and add to it that, in the light of this quote, it is worth meditating on both Santa Claus and Jesus Christ, and why we act them out in little life plays annually. Although I don't go so far as to call either of these "lies".

I'm obsessed with this entire thread, but when I saw this this specific one I went 👀 And then I watched the video and went 😻

G'morning everyone, it's time to rock and roll www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmr...

Don't miss this one, folks

My publisher notified me of another sale on my Androids audiobook: 50% off, so it's just $10. The promotion runs through January 26th. (If you already have it / listened to it / read it: thanks! I hope you enjoyed it!) www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

I don't know anything about jemalloc, and this is old news, but big sigh "And people find themselves in impossible situations where the main choices are 1) make poor decisions under extreme pressure, 2) comply under extreme pressure, or 3) get routed around." jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/j...

Metro 0.9.0 is a big performance release focused on optimizing generated graphs! github.com/ZacSweers/metro/re...

I hope that every programmer I know reads and internalizes this pronto. A foundational document for LLMs in engineering practice. Much here should be obvious, but depending on your POV you will find crucial guidance here in one place or another

Climbing the engineering ladder means you get to go from being a person who is told not to do something stupid because it's wrong, to being a person who does something stupid in spite of it being wrong

Hi, I have now left Mississippi and am now out of Bluesky Jail

It's so satisfying to kick the tires on Metro and see that it is, in fact, what I wanted and dreamed of: Anvil with the sucky parts removed

New fun US political item to keep eyes on: prospect.org/2025/11/20/b... At Cash, I often raise the point that we need to protect our customers. But without regulation, the business environment makes that impossible — it becomes a cheat or lose situation.

Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account. So that's nice.

CW is amazing. Subscribe!

If you start watching this and think "Oh, huh, that's kinda weird" just keep letting it ride, my friend

Cash Android has recently switched to Metro, a new, fast dependency injection framework built for K2. That was a fun project and we're really happy with the results! Sharing details on how we approached the migration to help teams adopt Metro: code.cash.app/cash-android...

👀 We did the thing! We migrated to Metro! code.cash.app/cash-android... DING IS NING (@egorand.dev did the thing.)

I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community

Droidcon NYC->Orlando is pretty rough. This is the conference I gave my first public talk at. The conf I came out on stage at. It's the last one standing of all the tech hub Android community conferences. And now it's left us to pitch tent more sustainably under transphobic law.

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I can't tell you how concerning this is. Everyone should read Erin's work on Facebook in Myanmar: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan... That she is calling this out frightens me. It tells you how those ICE officers view themselves.

This is fantastic and @zacsweers.dev deserves all the praise but it also is gonna give you a false idea of what Z is like as a maintainer and author, what the project is like, and how you might achieve something like this yourself

Excited to share Metro's original design doc. Pulls back the curtain on a lot of the historical community feedback and discussions that went into it in its early days! www.zacsweers.dev/metros-desig...

This is a valuable document to read in itself, but essentially: * DHS is using face scanning tech that we technologies know is known bad * You can't opt out * DHS claims this supersedes any actual documentation you have as to your citizenship

This week's @unbreaking.org update on immigration is *also* an update on data security because the administration is using immigration enforcement as a way to trial and operationalize a full-on surveillance state.

Coding with LLMs is exciting and fast in some ways, and profoundly demoralizing in other ways. I've worked for years to write better coroutines tests (see here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8k...), and it is just so much less work to write tests that I think suck.

Not only is it a series of videos for the month of November in which no effort has been made time It's also time to play the @techconnectify.bsky.social hits youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...

Live from kingston harbor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVr7...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Oh lawd, true vibe

It is difficult to maintain AI skepticism in the face of the impact it has on remote junior engineers. I would rather our juniors learn the ropes in person with senior engineers, but.... they're not, at least not at our company. Having access to genAI tools has wildly improved their learning.

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

I've been going down a stats + Android macrobenchmarks rabbit hole Trying to write a blog post about that, in the meantime I'll share some raw thoughts here as a thread. I've been focusing on benchmarks that capture frame duration metrics, e.g. developer.android.com/codelabs/jet... #AndroidDev

When I read someone say, "Anyone who votes for a Nazi is a Nazi," and the "Nazi" in question is, like, supposed to be a crypto Nazi I just shut my pie hole. Like, "Nothing good happening here, nothing good happening if I get involved" When I see a mob, I generally run the other way

This is 100% true. If you want the PRESENTATION to be great, the slides should complete your words, or vice versa. Punchlines, conundrums, summaries, even emphasis - they help you command the audience's attention. If they're standalone, they must work without you there at all.

Watchmen is great, it's practically poetry in its economy of storytelling, and also Dr. Manhattan is a complete lunatic unreliable narrator

I left Slack for a few reasons and Marc was two of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

I haven't been following Unbreaking all that closely, but this summary of all the data security incidents they compiled is, by itself, pretty astonishing: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

Newsom just signed SB79, a huge win for better urban development. Based on the feet dragging I presume the screaming match at him must have been deafening, especially after he vetoed all those trans rights bills.

Apple land (RIP Big Nerd Ranch) is where I learned that the acid test for communication is whether your reader gets it. I didn't "get it" when I looked at this icon, and I know what a loupe is! Why they chose to get rid of the photos (which provide interpretive context), I haven't the faintest idea

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

This isn’t to say they aren’t going to try to do fascism or do very dangerous or sadistic things for the sake of making content, we’re seeing that with the boats in Venezuela, but that you have to think about them as content creators first because everything makes more sense if you do.

We already had incremental compilation in the single-digit seconds range, but I’m still blown away by how much faster it is now that the entire codebase is fully on Metro. 🤯 github.com/ZacSweers/me...

Also, if you're discussing water: • Ounce is derived from the Latin Unica, unit • One ounce of water by volume is basically one ounce of water by weight • 16 volumetric ounces in a pint • 16 weight ounces in a pound • Pound and pint are the same word

We are going to cancel our Disney+ sub, but we also know that Disney is not doing this because of audience demand. They did it: * To get a merger to go through Trump's FCC * Because they control so much content that consumers will come back regardless of how much they complain today

I am not sure why the answer to "What can I give my followers in these trying times" is "Unhinged video from Daily Tokusatsu"